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Partners Prepping Faster Radeon RX 6900 XT GPUs With Higher-Binned Navi 21 Dies?

Home News Navi 21 Silicon (Image credit: AMD) In its review of PowerColor’s Radeon RX 6900 XT Red Devil Ultimate, French publication Overclocking.com discovered that the graphics card is based on a new variant of the Navi 21 (Big Navi) silicon. The review brought to light the possibility that other vendors may also be preparing… Read more

AMD Ryzen 5000G Cezanne APUs: Shipping to OEMs Now, Coming To DIY Later This Year

Home News (Image credit: AMD) AMD has announced that its 7nm Ryzen 5000G series APUs, codename Cezanne, are now shipping to OEMs with availability for the DIY/retail market coming later this year. AMD announced three primary 65W models that span from four Zen 3 cores up to eight cores, accompanied by Vega graphics that span… Read more

Microsoft Surface Laptop 4 Has Intel, AMD CPU Options, Starting at $999

Home News (Image credit: Microsoft) Microsoft today announced the next iteration of its Surface laptop, the Surface Laptop 4. It will start at $999 when it goes on sale on April 15. Perhaps its biggest selling point is choice, with options for both 11th Gen Intel Core processors or an 8-core AMD Ryzen (again called… Read more

Dell Standardizes Inspiron Lineup, Adds 16-inch Model

Home News (Image credit: Dell) Dell’s Inspiron line-up of mid-range casual use case laptops is a bit confusing right now. There’s lots of model numbers, a lot of similar colors, the latest Inspiron 13 is only available as a convertible, and certain current Inspiron 15 models uniquely have a somewhat bulkier and older looking design…. Read more

Dell’s XPS 13 now comes with an OLED touch display option

Dell has unveiled a new XPS 13 option with an OLED touchscreen that is available for purchase today. The feature will cost an extra $300 over FHD models. (Note: This isn’t a brand-new XPS. It’s just an OLED version of the 9310 that came out last year.) XPS 13 models start at $999.99 and range… Read more

Microsoft announces Surface Laptop 4 with choice of Intel or AMD processors

Microsoft is refreshing its Surface lineup with the Surface Laptop 4 today, which now offers the choice between AMD or Intel processors across both the 13.5- and 15-inch models. Both sizes will ship with Intel’s latest 11th Gen processors or AMD’s Ryzen 4000 series processors. Microsoft is shipping its Surface Laptop 4 on April 15th… Read more

Nvidia Refreshes Expensive, Powerful DGX Station 320G and DGX Superpod

Home News (Image credit: Nvidia) Nvidia today revealed its updated DGX Station A100 320G. As you might infer from the name, the new DGX Station sports four 80GB A100 GPUs, with more memory and memory bandwidth than the original DGX Station. The DGX Superpod has also been updated with 80GB A100 GPUs and Bluefield-2 DPUs…. Read more

Nvidia’s Arm-Powered Grace CPU Debuts, Claims 10X More Performance Than x86 Servers

Home News (Image credit: Nvidia) Nvidia introduced its Arm-based Grace CPU architecture that the company will use to power two new AI supercomputers. Nvidia says its new chips deliver 10X more performance than today’s fastest servers in AI and HPC workloads. The new Grace CPU architecture comes powered by unspecified “next-generation” Arm Neoverse CPU cores… Read more

Hack Boosts Video Encoding For Nvidia’s Consumer GPUs

Home News (Image credit: Nvidia) Back on Saturday we reported that Nvidia’s GPU virtualization capability only enabled on select GPUs for datacenters can be unlocked using a rather simple hack (albeit only in Linux) on GeForce and Quadro graphics cards for client PCs. Apparently, this is not the only datacenter-exclusive feature that can be enabled on client… Read more

Ryzen 5000 Pro Zen 3 APUs Can Be A Game Changer For Businesses

Home News Ryzen Pro Processor (Image credit: AMD) HP has been unintentionally exposing AMD’s Ryzen 5000 (Cezanne) APUs. Apparently, the tech giant (via momomo_us) has also shared the specifications for the Ryzen 5000 Pro lineup via the one of the company’s support documents. The Pro series, which is oriented to business and professional users, utilizes… Read more

Gigabyte Z590 Aorus Master Review: Remastered for Z590

Our Verdict Gigabyte’s Aorus Z590 Master is a well-rounded upper mid-range motherboard with a VRM rivaled by boards that cost twice as much. Between the Wi-Fi 6E and 10 GbE, three M.2 sockets and six SATA ports for storage, plus its premium appearance, the Z590 Master is an excellent option to get into the Z590… Read more

Building Ikigai, My Award-Winning Wooden PC Mod

Home News (Image credit: Tom’s Hardware) I have been in the modding scene since 2005, creating mostly scratch build projects out of wood, acrylic and aluminum. The most notable of these have been Sangaku, Yuugou and Chiaroscuro with Chiaroscuro having been completed back in 2008. After a long hiatus, I completed Morphosis for the Cooler… Read more

GlobalFoundries Owner Eyes $20 Billion Valuation for IPO

Home News (Image credit: GlobalFoundries) Mubadala Investment Co. has started preparations for GlobalFoundries’ initial public offering (IPO), which is expected in late 2021. As chip demand is surging and the industry is suffering from shortages, GlobalFoundries’ business is expected to thrive. Bloomberg reported this week that Mubadala has initiated talks with potential advisers about an IPO of… Read more

Keep Your Cool(er): Noctua Confirms Intel Alder Lake CPU Support

Home News (Image credit: Noctua) Noctua, a leading maker of coolers, said that many of its existing aftermarket CPU cooling systems will be compatible with Intel’s forthcoming Alder Lake processors in LGA1700 packaging, with appropriate upgrade kits. The manufacturer did not say that all of the existing coolers will be compatible with the new CPUs,… Read more

Lenovo’s Legion Radeon RX 6900 XT Pictured: Coming Closer?

Home News (Image credit: WolStame/Weibo) A Lenovo product manager has published the first pictures of its upcoming Radeon RX 6900 XT Legion graphics card. The board looks as monumental as the renders released a few months ago, and the very emergence of the photos may indicate that the product is close to release. Lenovo’s Radeon RX 6900… Read more